[GEM Development] FreeGEM internationalization

[Shane M. Coughlan]

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John Elliott wrote:
>   Now back to the present day. I've finally got around to copying the
> codepage loader from the ViewMAX/II VGA driver into the two GEM video
> drivers I've done (SD256 and SDPSC9). They are now both supplied with a
> GEM.CPI containing several codepages. When started, they should select the
> correct codepage based on DOS settings (use CHCP under DOS to select the
> codepage before starting GEM). If you don't like the font supplied, then you
> can replace GEM.CPI with another codepage file in DRFONT format and use
> that. 

This sounds like a significant breakthrough in terms of allow GEM to run
in different languages.  However, I confess I'm not going to be able to
implement anything too exciting in this regard; I have no experience of
using different code-pages.  Does anyone have plans to apply this to a
GEM distribution?  If someone is will to walk me through it I'd gladly
put it into OpenGEM!

Shane

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